GNU bug report logs - #41518
Bug in od?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Yuan Cao <yuancao85 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 05:56:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #24 received at 41518 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Yuan Cao <yuancao85 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 41518 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Subject: Re: bug#41518: Bug in od?
Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 09:36:10 +0200

On Mai 29 2020, Yuan Cao wrote:

> It just feels strange because the order does not reflect the order of the
> characters in the file.

But that's not true.  It reflects exactly how 2-byte numbers are stored
in memory on your system.  If you want to make a connection with
characters, you need to think about UCS-2 characters.

Andreas.

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